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Kentucky General Assembly Mostly Restores Higher Ed Funding
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (222+ words) Inside Higher Ed Kentucky General Assembly Mostly Restores Higher Ed Funding You have /3 articles left. Kentucky lawmakers have finalized budget legislation that largely restores higher ed funding. The Kentucky General Assembly has largely walked back the millions of dollars in…...
Kentucky GOP Overrides Beshear's Veto of Faculty Firing Bill
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (261+ words) Republican lawmakers overrode Kentucky governor Andy Beshear's veto of House Bill 490." A new law says Kentucky public college and university boards can lay off even tenured faculty for "bona fide financial reasons" including, but not limited to, low enrollment in…...
New Bill Tightens Control Over Kentucky State University
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (826+ words) Kentucky lawmakers passed legislation that would grant them new oversight over the commonwealth's historically Black land-grant university and transition it into a polytechnic institution. Kentucky State University students and alumni successfully lobbied state lawmakers to soften plans for strict oversight…...
Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Allowing Easier Faculty Layoffs
3+ week, 1+ day ago (779+ words) The legislation would explicitly permit terminations for low enrollment or "misalignment of revenue and costs." The GOP supermajority can override any veto from the Democratic governor. Republican state lawmakers have time to override any veto from the Democratic governor. Kentucky…...
U of Louisville to Close On-Campus Preschool
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (211+ words) University employees say the early childhood learning center was the most significant family-friendly benefit on campus. The announcement came as a shock to parents of ELC students, who said the university should have made them aware the center was facing…...
Is the SAT a Good Fit for Public Universities? It Depends
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (358+ words) Standardized test requirements should be aligned with mission'a fact that demands a variety of approaches across different states and institutional types. In my view, Geiser's argument is fundamentally flawed in his comparison of elite private institutions to public university systems,…...